If you have a goal for 2022,
chances are there is a crystal to
match your intention for the new year.
But what do those crystals do exactly?
And how can you use them
in your day to day life?
I talked to the founder of Spirit
daughter Jill Wintersteen to learn more.
Jill Happy New Year for people who
are looking in 2022 to incorporate
maybe crystals into their lives.
How do you do it?
Where do you even start?
I feel like it's overwhelming.
Well, there are many, many types of crystals.
I get this question often.
It it can be very overwhelming for
people who are just starting out.
There are a few crystals though that I put
in my beginners toolkit, which are corks.
Rose quartz citrine, a black Onyx.
These are your go to crystals.
If you're just starting out and
they're all different shapes,
there's tumbled stones.
There's generators, there's palm stones,
and it's all about how you want to use.
And I always say when choosing your crystal,
let the crystal choose you,
even if you're doing it on the screen,
online shopping or in a store.
Be guided by your intuition.
And if you see one, it's just like,
Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful.
I have to have it.
If it's within your means
to grab that crystal,
then do So
what aren't like the benefits of it?
I feel like you here.
I don't know like what's good for love,
right? Was it rose quartz?
So you meant like is that true?
Or how do you get the benefit from it?
Well, crystals vibrate at a certain
energy level, so that's how we use them,
and then that energy level or
vibration corresponds with certain
qualities like love, compassion,
protection, abundance, and.
So if you want, say, abundance or
love in your life in the new year,
if that's a resolution or
an intention you have,
you can choose a crystal that
will help bring that energy into
your world and will also help you
cultivate that energy within yourself.
So it's really about your intention.
And then matching the
crystal with your intention.
I feel like I've mostly seen them
for like necklaces or maybe like a
bracelet is in like the face rollers.
Is that a new thing too?
How do you recommend using them?
Rose Quartz is actually
very calming for the skin.
It can decrease inflammation
even when I have like a sunburn.
I'll roll rose quartz like a rose
rose quartz sphere on my sunburn,
so I do believe there's some benefits
to using the Rose quartz roller
on your face just to help like
decrease puffiness or inflammation.
Do you feel like putting them
around your house or like how
do you use them? Best to you?
Talked about that energy to like?
Cultivate that energy in your own life.
Yeah, I meditate with them.
Personally I love to
meditate with a palm stone.
This is a formation this moonstone.
I just hold it in my hand while
I meditate and that just helps me
open up my intuition and helps
me align with the energy of the
crystal which is very calming.
I also personally love to place
them on my body on different points
so if I've had a really busy
day and I need to calm my mind,
I'll take a bath,
lay in the bath and place this
on my third eye.
And it's just really calming and
really soothing and can just settle
all that chaotic nervous energy
that happens over the day and that
it is also great to place them
in certain spots in your home.
I do want to ask you,
I feel like the market can get
saturated with with crystals.
How do you know that you're actually
getting the genuine thing and not
just like are there knockoffs?
Can you get taken by some company
just creating these crystals?
You know I haven't come across
a lot of synthetic crystals.
OK, like just lab produced like gems
like you would you see that with gems
I think more like your gemstones.
We do though make a huge effort to
source ethically mined crystals.
So that's a really big thing to ask.
If you are buying crystals from
a company or from a person,
just ask how they remind.
Do they know where they were
coming from because?
There is a lot that goes on in these
minds with with bringing these
crystals out and you don't want
the energy tainted because it was
mined in some unethical way where
people were harmed or or not paid
a fair wage or all of those things,
so that's that's more of what
to look for or ask when buying
crystals than you know.
Worrying about synthetic crystals.
You can always learn more from Jill.
She's actually on Instagram.
Follow her there at Spirit daughter.